That’s the general conclusion of a study that examined wage data and immigration in 219 metropolitan areas from 1990 to 2010. Researchers found that cities seeing the biggest influx of foreign-born workers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics — the so-called STEM professions — saw wages climb fastest for the native-born, college-educated population.

One of the authors, Giovanni Peri of the University of California-Davis, says immigrants can boost the overall economy “because then the pie grows and there are more jobs for other people as well, and there’s not a zero-sum trade-off between natives and immigrants.”

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